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Saron Gebresellassi
Saron Gebresellassi is an Eritrean-Canadian human rights lawyer who ran for mayor of Toronto in 2018. She finished in 4th place.

Early Life and Education
Born in Eritrea, Saron Gebresellassi and her family came to Canada in 1989 as refugees from that country's civil war and settled in Toronto. As she grew up in government housing in the low-income neighbourhood of York Square, Gebresellassi soon focused on academics as an avenue for upward social mobility , achieving a Bachelor's in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson University, a Master's in Education from the University of Toronto, and entered a PhD program for social and political thought at York University before switching to law school at the University of Ottawa. The day after receiving her law degree Gebresellassi immediately opened her own law firm in the same neighbourhood where she grew up.

Legal Career
She did something noteworthy.

2018 Mayoral Campaign
She ran for mayor.